Week Work

While dividing workweek into two words is wrong, joining hard and earned with a hyphen would be right. (It's a compound adjective.)

A workweek is a 7 day period that your employer establishes and it must remain consistent. The workweek can start on any day of the week. For example, your employer may establish that the workweek runs from Monday through Sunday or from Wednesday to Tuesday.

Example one You have a standard working week of 40 hours (eight hours a day). You also do 12 hours overtime a week for the first 10 weeks of your 17-week reference period.

A workweek is a fixed, regularly-recurring period of 168 hours. In other words, a workweek is seven consecutive 24-hour periods.

September 25, 1926: Ford Motor Companies adopted a five-day, 40-hour workweek. June 25, 1938: Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which limited the workweek to 44 hours. June 26, 1940: Congress amended the Fair Labor Standards Act, limiting the workweek to 40 hours.

The legal working week (British English), or workweek (American English), is the part of the seven-day week devoted to working. In most of the world, the workweek is from Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. A weekday or workday is any day of the working week.

Many full-time jobs consist of a 40-hour workweek (five eight-hour days). In this sense, the workweek consists of all the time spent working in a week. The workweek can also be called the working week. A day of the workweek can be called a workday.

Walk the dog twice a day (I have to do this anyway!) Meal plan, shop and actually cook a meal each day (rather than thinking "I'll just have some toast"!) Clean the oven (much needed) General cleaning, bed washing, ironing etc. Do some reading and perhaps visit the local library.

1 : the weekly service of labor due from a villein or unfree tenant to his feudal lord usually amounting to 2 or 3 days but 4 or 5 in summer. 2 : work for which one is employed by the week.